It’s no big secret that we’re not fans of the journal impact factor. So it’s possibly justified to feel a little smug that overstating conclusions of research is positively correlated with impact factor.
It makes much more sense in fact to publish everything and filter after the fact so says our friend Cameron Neylon, a senior scientist at the Science & Technology Facilities Council. I’m not going to get into that argument here, but I am going to archly raise my eyebrow at the piece in Nature whence…
A comment thread on one of The Scientist articles gives me the opportunity to mention F1000 Factors. Hidden away in our about pages there’s an explanation of how we calculate the F1000 Factor for evaluated articles. As it says there, Faculty Members rate each article ‘Recommended’, ‘Must Read’ or ‘Exceptional’. These correspond to a number,…
What was that? I think it was the sound of a week flashing past. I keep saying things like “We’ve got a brand new website… but you can’t see it yet.” This must be quite frustrating. Truth is, the dev team are working very hard (and specs have changed and changed again—but let’s not go…
Vitek quotes a Polish proverb, If you’re going to fall off a horse, make it a big one. In that vein, take a look at this graph (don’t look too closely; it’s deliberately a tiny bit obscure): What I’ve been doing this week is mostly hacking away in Perl at some of the information in…
I was at the Internet Librarian International on Thursday and Friday of last week. Not the sort of conference I’m used to attending but as we were sponsoring it we had a speaking slot, and I seemed the obvious choice! Rather than talk about f1000 or give a ‘corporate’ presentation I talked about the Journal…
…what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause Thomson, in a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reckon there ain’t nowt wrong with the Journal Impact Factor: The impact factor has had success and utility as a journal metric due to its concentration on…
I’ve been remiss. I should have talked a bit about the events of last Saturday: truth is I was struck by a stomach bug on Tuesday night and have been a little bit out of things. If you’re interested, there is a video of the ‘Fringe Frivolous‘ event of the Friday evening and lots and…
Shirley Wu kicked off an interesting conversation on Friendfeed yesterday, reporting on a conversation that questioned the ‘quality’ of our old friend PLoS One. Now there’s a debate that’s going to go round and round, possibly generating rather more heat and noise than useful work. The conversation, thanks to Peter Binfield, then turned onto article…
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